{"id":9766,"date":"2009-08-04T16:38:18","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T16:38:18","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-08-04T18:36:54","modified_gmt":"2009-08-04T18:36:54","slug":"demographics-of-california-are-achanging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/08\/04\/demographics-of-california-are-achanging\/","title":{"rendered":"Demographics of California Are A-Changing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Photobucket\"<\/a>The good folks at the Field Poll have been quiet recently. Other than a poll about the national health care debate, they hadn’t released much since back before the May 19 debacle at the end of April.  <\/p>\n

However, today, they’ve decided to present the Republicans with some solid evidence of their worst nightmare: an electorate controlled by minorities (PDF)<\/a>. Using some data from various sources the numbers are pretty much as you would expect, the numbers of Latinos and Asians in both the general populace and the voting booths are up, while the numbers of African-Americans and whites are down. Given the lengths that the Republicans have gone to alienate immigrants, these numbers cannot be good for them.<\/p>\n

Of course, whites are still very over represented in the voting booths, but much of that is from one very discouraging fact.  Despite all the hubub about Barack Obama activating the youth to engage, and get involved, the California electorate is now older than it was in 1978. Of course, much of this has to do with the fact that people live longer than they did in 1978.  Medical technology and understanding of health has increased substantially. But while we have come a long way in activating young voters, there is always a lot of work yet to be done.<\/p>\n

All news is not rosy when looking back over the last 30 years for the Democratic Party.  For example, when loo9king at registration, the rapid increase of Decline to State Voters has come almost exclusively from the Democratic column.  In 1978, Dem registration was at 56.6%, whereas it is now at 44.6%. DTS registration is up 12 points to 20, Republican registration is down 3.2 points to 31, and “Other” is up 3 points to 4.4.<\/p>\n

Many voters simply don’t take party affiliation as seriously as they used did back in 1978, and the Dems were always more of a big tent than the ideologically rigid GOP. And the DTS generally break towards the Dem candidate and\/or position. So, perhaps this isn’t that serious, but it certainly is stark.<\/p>\n

But, in the main, let’s see the GOP keep up this anti-immigrant thing, and see how it works for you as these patterns continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"Photobucket\"<\/a>The good folks at the Field Poll have been quiet recently. Other than a poll about the national health care debate, they hadn’t released much since back before the May 19 debacle at the end of April.  <\/p>\n

However, today, they’ve decided to present the Republicans with some solid evidence of their worst nightmare: an electorate controlled by minorities (PDF)<\/a>. Using some data from various sources the numbers are pretty much as you would expect, the numbers of Latinos and Asians in both the general populace and the voting booths are up, while the numbers of African-Americans and whites are down. Given the lengths that the Republicans have gone to alienate immigrants, these numbers cannot be good for them.<\/p>\n

Of course, whites are still very over represented in the voting booths, but much of that is from one very discouraging fact.  Despite all the hubub about Barack Obama activating the youth to engage, and get involved, the California electorate is now older than it was in 1978. Of course, much of this has to do with the fact that people live longer than they did in 1978.  Medical technology and understanding of health has increased substantially. But while we have come a long way in activating young voters, there is always a lot of work yet to be done.<\/p>\n

All news is not rosy when looking back over the last 30 years for the Democratic Party.  For example, when loo9king at registration, the rapid increase of Decline to State Voters has come almost exclusively from the Democratic column.  In 1978, Dem registration was at 56.6%, whereas it is now at 44.6%. DTS registration is up 12 points to 20, Republican registration is down 3.2 points to 31, and “Other” is up 3 points to 4.4.<\/p>\n

Many voters simply don’t take party affiliation as seriously as they used did back in 1978, and the Dems were always more of a big tent than the ideologically rigid GOP. And the DTS generally break towards the Dem candidate and\/or position. So, perhaps this isn’t that serious, but it certainly is stark.<\/p>\n

But, in the main, let’s see the GOP keep up this anti-immigrant thing, and see how it works for you as these patterns continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1057,5165,5998],"class_list":["post-9766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-1057","tag-5165","tag-5998"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2xw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}